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Husbands 'will have to admit web porn use to their wives', says David Cameron

Husbands who secretly use internet porn will have to confess to their wives when new family filters come in, David Cameron said today.

The Prime Minister said they were “going to have to have a discussion” with their partners if they wish to continue accessing porn. He spoke as internet firms, security chiefs and police gathered at Downing Street for talks on action to tackle child abuse rings.

From next year, people will have to opt in if they want their internet service provider to let them access pornographic material at home. Asked on BBC radio where that would leave husbands who secretly look at such material, Mr Cameron said they would have to talk it over with their spouses.

Child porn block: Web giant google
A world summit on internet porn will be held in London next year. GCHQ codebreakers are being deployed to track down paedophiles hiding on the “dark net”. Mr Cameron said: “That expertise is going to be brought to bear, to go after these revolting people.”

Barack Obama is among world leaders taking a keen interest in moves led by Britain to block abusive images from being seen, and to track down those responsible for making them.

Google and Microsoft today bowed to pressure to rewrite their software to block 100,000 search terms used by paedophiles to access illegal material. In other key moves:

GCHQ has been ordered to break the heavy encryption around the “dark internet” used by abusers as well as terrorists and organised criminals. The Prime Minister has tasked it with tracing “digital footprints” left by child abusers when they share images on sites invisible to normal search engines.

Britain’s National Crime Agency will join the FBI to target those using the dark net, whose UK users have risen to about 20,000.

Industry experts have agreed to find new ways to remove abuse material from the internet.

A former police expert said cracking the dark net was a key. “They don’t go onto Google to search for images,” said Jim Gamble, ex-head of the Child Ex-ploitation and Online Protection Centre. “They go to the dark corners of the internet on peer-to-peer websites.”

Concern over the issue rose when it emerged child killers Mark Bridger and Stuart Hazell habitually used vile images found on search engines. Mr Cameron warned he would legislate if net firms failed to take action themselves.